Friday, May 18, 2007

I aint no queer!



A 12-year-old Chicago girl and her grandparents are taking legal action after she was shown Brokeback Mountain in school.

Jessica Turner claims her teacher, Ms Buford, announced in the middle of a lesson that "what happens in Ms Buford's class stays in Ms Buford's class" - before asking a pupil to close the door and settling down to watch Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal getting busy. I wish I knew how to quit you Jakey, oh yes I do!

Most schoolkids would probably concede that spending an afternoon watching an Oscar-winning film beats the average school day. Although not Jessica, who complained to her family that "they made me watch this bad movie". Apparently this has inflicted the sort of psychological trauma that only $500,000 can cure, and her family have launched an action against the Chicago Board of Education.

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